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Originally posted by Jason711
the point, which im sorry escapes you, is that it is faster than a single IDE disk.. no it isnt SCSI, but this thread isnt about neither is it even compareing to SCSI. we all know SCSI is better, pointing that out is infact pointless. and again, you take one aspect, blow it out of proportion, and try to make the entire thing look bad. bad show.
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The increase in speed for a RAID set vs straight drives is negligable in almost all desktop access patterns yet you still seem to think it's amazing and then accuse me of blowing things out of proportion. Let me restate this since you missed it, access time is key, being able to pull 30 extra megs down in a second is irrelvevant as almost all reads are for a few k to a few megs. Having a few ms off your access time makes more difference than RAID in pretty much all circumstances. The only way to get that is to spin the disk faster. IDE is, when it comes down to it, bottom of the line and kept there for a reason - most people want cheap storage not good performance. If you're happy with IDE that's fine, but don't try to make out that RAIDing it or serial ATA or any other IDE gimmick will make it fast, it won't.
The point about SCSI is this - people are spending a crap load of cash on these IDE RAID setups etc. when they could just bite the ****ing bullet and buy SCSI for the same and get much better performance. Half the reason they do this is because people go round saying things like "2 disks in RAID0 is twice as fast!!" which is just BS. Then they buy it and either are dissapointed or convince themself it's really fast to avoid looking like a moron. Thus the cycle continues...